Freighttrain

[pHILSANITY07]

I worked for a class 2 railroad it was local. I worked the fort worth to Everman job when I first got certified switching the miller brewery and industries in that area for a year. Then got on the fort worth to Dublin run.

who do you work for? Sounds like a cool job, and get to go home at night with being local?

[krazy kris]

who do you work for? Sounds like a cool job, and get to go home at night with being local?

It's not as cool as you would think if you don't get lucky and snag a job on the rare occasions they are open you get stuck on the extra board. That means you are on call. You will be beat to death on the extra board. If you work anything less than 12hours you have to be back at work in 8hours if you work 12 or more(dead head time) you have to be back in 10. you start out as a conductor in training for 3 months. once you get certified you got to the extra board. A year later you get your student engineers card and start training to be an engineer. once you get certified to be an engineer you go back to the extra board until a job opens up.

[talisman]

I guess by your trail of thought someone that flys a cessna is just as qualified as someone that flys a stealth fighter or a 747 huh.

Don't you mean train of thought?

[pHILSANITY07]

It's not as cool as you would think if you don't get lucky and snag a job on the rare occasions they are open you get stuck on the extra board. That means you are on call. You will be beat to death on the extra board. If you work anything less than 12hours you have to be back at work in 8hours if you work 12 or more(dead head time) you have to be back in 10. you start out as a conductor in training for 3 months. once you get certified you got to the extra board. A year later you get your student engineers card and start training to be an engineer. once you get certified to be an engineer you go back to the extra board until a job opens up.

i see, sounds complicated a little.

[krazy kris]

i see, sounds complicated a little.

If you think that's complicated you head would be full of fuck your first day with a switch list.

[Ruffdaddy]

That's because he worked for a short line. That's like playing ball for the Yankee's Farm Club.

Get real dude. It may be like the Difference in coaches pitch vs kid pitch. Stop trying to act like a train is some wild beast only sir Arthur can tame

[krazy kris]

Get real dude. It may be like the Difference in coaches pitch vs kid pitch. Stop trying to act like a train is some wild beast only sir Arthur can tame

The locomotives are basically the same yes class 1's have more high tech gadgets but the mechanics are the same. Class 1's also have better and more track and pay a little better.

[FreightTrain]

The locomotives are basically the same yes class 1's have more high tech gadgets but the mechanics are the same. Class 1's also have better and more track and pay a little better.

I'd bet money that short line didn't have a locomotive that was built in this century. Yall ever run a rock train that was 24,000 tons with two pusher on the rear you have to control by remote. Or have you ever ran a stack train that was 9000 feet long with 3 sets of power Front/middle/rear that you had to control individually. Little different than two engines and 20 cars on 40mph track.


Not knocking you Kris, but there are alot of differences between a class 1 and a short line. You'd also be sitting on a mountain of money if you where working for a class 1 when you got hurt.

[talisman]

I'd bet money that short line didn't have a locomotive that was built in this century. Yall ever run a rock train that was 24,000 tons with two pusher on the rear you have to control by remote. Or have you ever ran a stack train that was 9000 feet long with 3 sets of power Front/middle/rear that you had to control individually. Little different than two engines and 20 cars on 40mph track.


Not knocking you Kris, but there are alot of differences between a class 1 and a short line. You'd also be sitting on a mountain of money if you where working for a class 1 when you got hurt.

You're like Zeus of the trains. Can we be friends?

[krazy kris]

I'd bet money that short line didn't have a locomotive that was built in this century. Yall ever run a rock train that was 24,000 tons with two pusher on the rear you have to control by remote. Or have you ever ran a stack train that was 9000 feet long with 3 sets of power Front/middle/rear that you had to control individually. Little different than two engines and 20 cars on 40mph track.


Not knocking you Kris, but there are alot of differences between a class 1 and a short line. You'd also be sitting on a mountain of money if you where working for a class 1 when you got hurt.

The biggest train I have had was 3 triple axle 50's with 175 cars of pipe,sand, and grain from Fort Worth to Dublin with a max speed of 60 and slowest speeds of 10mph slow orders. We did get some new engines a year before I left that were low E.I'll take that in $100's

[FreightTrain]

You're like Zeus of the trains. Can we be friends?

I wouldn't even let you tie my shoes.

[The King]

How about wipe your ass.....would you let him do that?

[pHILSANITY07]

Shit, I'm not even that stupid to call out someone when I don't have any experience in it. Yea I bet it's not as easy as it looks.

[PandaBear]

[Ruffdaddy]

Most pilots don't fly planes built in this century...even fighters and bombers. So what does that have to do with anything?